Patents by Inventor Kuniaki ARAGANE

Kuniaki ARAGANE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10446092
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that can protect user's eyes by reducing harmful blue light in a mode that matches the characteristics of an image to be displayed and the preference of the user who causes the image to be displayed. The image processing apparatus includes a blue light reduction control unit that acquires image information Sin corresponding to an image to be displayed on a display and a pixel value update unit that generates update image information Sbc by reducing at least luminance corresponding to a blue component in the acquired image information Sin so that a reduction rate of the luminance corresponding to the blue component is greater than or equal to reduction rates of luminance corresponding to the other color components in the acquired image information Sin and outputs the update image information Sbc to the display to cause the display to display the update image information Sbc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Aragane, Kenji Masuda, Kenichi Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20160140913
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that can protect user's eyes by reducing harmful blue light in a mode that matches the characteristics of an image to be displayed and the preference of the user who causes the image to be displayed. The image processing apparatus includes a blue light reduction control unit that acquires image information Sin corresponding to an image to be displayed on a display and a pixel value update unit that generates update image information Sbc by reducing at least luminance corresponding to a blue component in the acquired image information Sin so that a reduction rate of the luminance corresponding to the blue component is greater than or equal to reduction rates of luminance corresponding to the other color components in the acquired image information Sin and outputs the update image information Sbc to the display to cause the display to display the update image information Sbc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Kuniaki ARAGANE, Kenji MASUDA, Kenichi MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20140372254
    Abstract: An information outputting apparatus is provided which can provide various information to a user and acquire various information indicating a moving state and the like of the user without separately acquiring user identification information again. An electronic shelf label T comprises a display 5 that displays a price and the like, a transmission/reception unit 1 that receives a customer ID for identifying a customer from a terminal apparatus P carried by the customer by wireless communication, a recording unit 2 that associates time data indicating time when the customer ID is received with the received customer ID and records the time data and the customer ID as customer/time data 21, and a transmission/reception unit 4 that associates the recorded customer/time data 21 with a sale item ID 20 and transmits the customer/time data 21 and the sale item ID 20 to the server apparatus SV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki ARAGANE, Jiro OTA, Kei SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8515130
    Abstract: To provide a conference system, a monitoring system, an image processing apparatus, an image processing method and A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a computer-image processing program capable of accurately and effectively recognizing an object based on a fisheye-distorted image photographed at a wide angle. When an instruction of selecting an arbitrary point Ci(ui, vi) of a 2D-viewable planar regular image generated based on a fisheye-distorted image S photographed by a fisheye lens is received, point Si(xi, yi) on the fisheye-distorted image S is calculated as a coordinate corresponding to Ci(ui, vi), and a pixel information group configuring the planar regular image is newly generated based on a pixel information group configuring the fisheye-distorted image S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kuniaki Aragane, Kyoji Yoshino, Koji Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20120093365
    Abstract: To provide a conference system, a monitoring system, an image processing apparatus, an image processing method and A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a computer-image processing program capable of accurately and effectively recognizing an object based on a fisheye-distorted image photographed at a wide angle. When an instruction of selecting an arbitrary point Ci(ui, vi) of a 2D-viewable planar regular image generated based on a fisheye-distorted image S photographed by a fisheye lens is received, point Si(xi, yi) on the fisheye-distorted image S is calculated as a coordinate corresponding to Ci(ui, vi), and a pixel information group configuring the planar regular image is newly generated based on a pixel information group configuring the fisheye-distorted image S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki ARAGANE, Kyoji YOSHINO, Koji INAGAKI